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AN ABANDONED CITV. ] i I REV. DR. TALMAGS AMONG TriZ PAL-1 ACES OF !ND!A. Three Things to See :it the A:>.cient City of j * Delhi The Cashmere (iate?The Palace J of the Moguls?A Palace of Amber?'The j Cl?ck of Time. Brooklyn. Dec. .*>u.?uoutinumgnis i series of round the world sermons through the press. Rev. Dr. Talmage 1 today chose for his subject "Palaces in India,'" the text being Amos iii. 10, | "Who store up violence and robbery j in their palaces." In this day. when vast sums of j money are beinjr given for the re r aempuon or xiiuiu. ?. imw the interest in that great country and at the same time draw for all classes of our people practical lessons, and so I present this fifth sermon in the round the world series. We step into the ancient capital of India, the mere pronunciation of its name sending a thrill through the body, mind and soul of all those who have ever read its stories of splendor and disaster and prowess?Delhi. Before the first historian impressed ?/] ,v>. ??t 1m< flfst ins .ursi w wu i3i vi.uj> ?/ word on marble or wrote his first word on papyrus Del hi.stood in India, a contempory of Babylon and Xii:eLveh. We know that Delhi exist.-u longer before Christ's time than we. live after his time. Delhi is built on the ruins of seven cities, which ruins cjOTer 3&>niiles with wrecked temples. v i . ^?broken, fortresses, split toinos. lunioic down palaces ami liie debris of centuries. An archaeologist could profitably spend his life here talking with i! itpast through its lips of venerable masonry. There are a hundred things here you ought to see in this city of Delhi, but three things you must see. The iirsi thing I wanted to see was the Cashmere gate, for that was the point :it which the most wonderful deed of daring which the world has ever seen was done. That was ihe turning point of the mutiny of 1857. A lady at Del' m-r bnnd an oil paiht:::g we susj^cticu J|i|jj^ the fish. One day all our servants 'Jfffil came up and said they must go and see "what was the matter. We saw what was intended and knew that if the servants returned they would murder all of us. Thing's grew worse ajnd worse until this scene of flight shown you in the picture took place. see, the horses were wild with fright. This was not only because of the discharge of guns, but the horses were struck and pounded by sepoys, and ropes were tied across the way. - ~ ^v>/I illcllfvnt. of 2.11 Q. xn.e sy.vunixv auu k-/* * ? revenge made all the way of our flight a horror." The books have fully recorded the heroism displayed at Delhi and approximate regions, but make no mention of this family of Wagentreibers whose flight I am mentioning. But rthe Madras Atheneum printed this: , ; "And now! Are not the deeds of ' ihe Wagentrei'oes, though he wore a round hat and shea crinoline, as wor ^e thy of unpens name i verse us uusc vi the heroic pair whose nuptials graced the court of Charlemange? A more touching picture than,that of the brave man contending with well nerved arm against the black and j threatening fate impending over hi^J wife and child v.-e have never seen. | Here was no'strife for the glory of! physical prowess or the spoil of shining arms, but a conquest of the human mind, an assertion of the powers j / array of circT^sSsa^es t^s~?^i;ilil'"assail a human being-. r>Icn have 00005ic gray in front of sudden and unexpcctIplpr ed peril, and in ancient days so much W^k "was courage a matter of heroics and pP*. mere instinct that we read in immorf tal verse of heroes struck with panic and fleeing before the enemy. But the savage sepoys, with their hoarse I war cry and swarming like wasps around the Wagentreibers. struck no terror into the brave man's heart. **" 1 " v aImiII*. ! LJCLIS Heroism was jiui cjhj; v..n,in , tion of despair: but. like tiiat of his wife, calm and wise, standino^jpright i that he might use his^rTTTs octter." | As an incidec^^Tsojaeiimes move-1 impress on?>ha:i a generality of stit'e- j ment^^esenithe iiight of tliis one! ^^^^prom Delhi merely to illustrate ^^^gberation of the times. The fact J the sepoys had taken posses- j ' iMCIIOiSOLL COIUU IUUShCI ijsj viuu. ,u?.v i seige to this walled city with devils. What fearful odds! Twelve hundred British troops uncovered by any mili tary works to take a city surrounded by firm and high masonry, on the top of which were 114 guns and defended by 40.000 foaming sepoys. A larger percentage of troops fell here than in any great battle I happen to know of. .v Will's. a!:'l ]i.-li :m:iy coukldo : :.^o Ausliix de Boi ji'jtiii-*iir bat bury their own dead. .But han quit this life, at this irate I sun id uuvl watch la si ex- and bids fair to si thai jaalrcs ihe page of history nenis crack open tremble with ajfitaiion. go down and this T'.w ? I.-j.- '*?! fCMtrkB l.?;t tbr? ?.wtct. n?? wiiiOrlc witll ?t< J ? '-1 --- - ? --- ~ famous :s me one before wnich we now j I rejoice in all stand, and it is called Cashmere gate, whether dedicate Write the words in red iuk.becau.se of Brahma or Budd the carnage. Write them in letters of Zoroaster, becans light, lor tlie illustrious deeds. Write Constantinople w them in let lei's of black, for the bereft changed into a 3 and the dead. Will ihe world ever be changed back < forget that Cashmere gate.' Lieuten- ques and temples ants Salkeld and ] Lome and Sergeants sin will yet be tu Burgess. Carmicheai and Smith otter- When India am ed to take bags of powder to the foot and Japan are ra; j of that gale and set them on lire, lievo they will be. blowing open the gate, although they tures will all be < I must die in doing it. There they go, tian ayslums an i nftr-r sunrise. <\-u-h one earrvimr and Christian lili a sack containing 2-i pounds of pow- churches. Built demand doing this under the lire of superstition and the enemy. Lieutenant Home was dedicated to the I the first to jump into the ditch, which The strange fat still remains before the gate. As they doned his palaces go one by one falls under the shot and to Jaipur, and a] shell, (ine of the mortally wounded the city followei as he falls hands Lis sack of powder, there a house in . with a box of lucifer matches, to an- hermit, the city i: other, telling him to fire the sack, when as Pompeii or "\viiii an explosion max. shook uiy rami must- uuivs v?uie for 20 miles around part of the Cash- disaster, while th mere gate was blown into fragments, vacated because 1 and the bodies of some of these heroes told by a Hindoi were so scattered they were never should be inhab: gathered for funeral or grave or mon- years, and so the ument. The British army rushed in moved out liimse 'hvin>(rli iboii-'.-Vfi-! :iii<1 jihhone'h ! moved with him. v'," v"bli v.^v - ? - * - o . # s:x days of aard iighung were necessa- I ou visit Amt> ry before tiie city was ia complete elephant. Perm possession the crisis was past. The your visit the daj Cashmere gate open, tiic capture of elephant is in w; Delhi and all it contained of palaces sixmiles out to t? and mosques and treasures was possi- t<> Amber. Yoi bie. " awfully quiet str Lord Napier of Magdala has lifted a trod them in the monument near this Cashmere gate having gone on t with the names of the men who there the voices of busi i foil inscribed thereon. That Kn<rlish sounded amid t lord. who had seen courage on many long ago uttered a bat lie field, visited this Cashmere You pass by a lal gateand felt that the men who opened wheregthe jRajabi it with the loss of theirown lives ought pleasure boats, bt to be co^iinejiioi'ated and hence this full possession. ; cenotaph. But. after all. the best abandoned palae monument is the gate itself, with the ehantment. No deep gouges ii: the brick wa 11 on the place was ever eh left hard side made by the two bomb- of a monarch, shells, and the wall above torn by ten looks down upon bj'.abshelis and I he wail on the right | palace looks dow side dci':iced, and scarped and plowed nionarchial aboi and gullied by all styles of long reach- tractions when it weaponry. Let the wort! "Cash- airy, which hay spondecl. All the thrones of trie earth jousting party; r( put together would not equal that for "alcove of light*' costliness and brilliance. It had steps and "hall of of silver, and the seat and arms were -white and black of solid gold. It cost about $150,000.- morning and ligb 000. It stood between two peacocks, quer work and i the feathers and plumes of which were that architctuere fashioned out of colored stones, painting and hort ' v'p- - - ' it.-:- - A Dove 1110 inrone was el iiiu 5i/,e pur- tucv pui, LUCII rot cut out of one emerald. Above done here in age" all wasa canopy resting-on 12columns their work still s of gold. the canopy fringed with, entrance archieoL pearls. Seated here, the emperor on But what a sole public occasions wore a crown contain- thing is anaban ing among other tilings the KoLinoor many of the peop diamond, and the entire blaze of coro- roof for their he; net cost ?10.350,000. This superb and city of roofs rejc rmoc rtlmnst snnernaturaliv beautiful the desert was suf room lias imbedded in the white mar- disappearance of ble wall letters of black marble which waters of the Mo were translated to me from Persian the cngulfment ol into English as meaning: of Mount Vesuvii If ou i-a.-tii there be an Eilen of bliss, of Herculaneum, That place i5* tiiK is tbls, is this, is this, nothing but a suj But the peacocks that .stood leside city of Amber is the throne have ilown away, taking Oh. wondrous In< ail the display with them, and those ber is only one o: white marble floors were reddened compel the unlift witli slaughter, and those bathrooms from the day yo "* * i Tj . ran with blood, and that Eden of your Jeave it. 115 which the Persian couplet on the wall fnt. fauna so moi spake lia.s had its flowers -wither and its ruins so sugge its fruits decay, and I thought while horrible, its cleg: looking at the brilliant desolation and 3no> its niineialo standing- amid the vanished glories of splendor so uplif that throncrooni that some one had so old, so grand, better change a little that Persian multipotent that 1 couplet on the wall and make it read: h~ comprehendec ' * " ** - 1-3-u \-AII mica j made its last expe: That p!;.ce is this is tin*,.]? t(;is. t:?u .bas ended il As I came ont_of the into the ^ie library of the < .street of ^eliii~Vthought to myself: ^'osoa -ts.ast (.o< BiW/lI.>es are not built out of stone, '^ls n, ,^ 3tfs(. s are not cut in sculpture, are not paint- j c c<c 01 *,1V11( ed on v/alls. are not fashioned out of ll0ur. precious siones. do not spray the check Tt> 1 . i . * i .1 , A J'oliti with fountains. oo not oner thrones ~ r or crowns. Paradises are built out of >- .A" * A. ; ;T'1" natures uplifted and ennobled, and ^fv'*VsPc.C < !or what architects comtxxs nrnv not ???hcaon toto i i *i of a serious shooti sweep, anu sciiipiors nnsci JIi.-i\ Iioi -m^i?, , 1 i . -i , JiuiCv v^oiina, i)i cut. :uiu painters pencil mav not , , 1 i - < i i -i! . on one side and t sketch. ana ^air.enei' s skill mav not ^ i 4 *i . p /*< 1 i** Uo\s on tiic othei lav out. the i; race ol (jocl can achieve, ? * i m.? i au<iif the heart be right aU .is right, difference'ir. polit ^Stbcstmigft^ ButI will not yet aliov.- you to leave IVin'k'-tnl^^n^n Delhi. Toe thir.l thing you must see ^amh?lldo i 'i 4i j ? -r * tCl CcltlOU, W 1101 Gill or liever admit that you have been m ? K;imbrell Cm< latitats tiiemosqtie cal ctl,anmir.a }tu- , flrf , suu. is the grandest ina^ite I ever <lh?tionSat a di saw execyt S. xophta ai vonsuuUino- Rush tire' ??? ret:,ri.oa the fire. ?*** lor*. sop,,,# ^oHginal ya his assailants tvric Cjinslian chare ,.andcWd mloa dshootingt,vk As ! catered 1.000 or a,ore Molmm- v'Xd "upon the c roeaans v.ore pro-shatcd m worship. sn<u>rat']lim w? l.a-re are tunes u-nen ?.? ?r be rcvolvcr seen !,m m u.e na? uunucie. jmkij | thrcc , 01ie , stone of tne lloor is feet long by 1; , ,ho thj ,u anotIle] u-i.lt-una er.en roranipcr lias one of . r., . i .1 these slabs for himself xvhile kneeling. j^^jeft side 3 Tne trestion of tins building required ,s ' laborers n.r six .years. n?on TheKambrells esc a i?:=.can 01 rocs..has, our towers ri*- j The ms ,ar 111,0 .nc Heavens, tnree great ]ai-and lirominei gateways inviting the world to come in and lionor the memory of tlie pvoph- They Die ct o:' many wives. In don;es. with Defiance. 0. spjrcs gold tipped, and minarets. Maunee river. ju V/hal a built up immensity of white last niHit Henr; marble and rod sandstone: u'e dc- and M?ss Lillies I seentk-d tne -i" marole su-ps by which skating on the ice we ascenn-'u and tooica nothor look at encv dam when t tliftv.vYI.1/1 \ c T ll).-nTrill T1 w.. - m .,.*.1.. ... open space, jluui v. "int a nv-'iM the architect must have to fiie trowing, bi had !ir;-i that mosque in liis were skatincTncc own imagination, and as I thought .spla.sli. and horrv what an opulent ruler that must have ;l broken place in been who gave the iirst order for such -;re -which cover vastaess and symmetry. I was remind- Th'ev ^-ave tlie ah ed of that winch perfectly explained half"hour the bodi all. The architect who planned this pie were taken fro was the same man who planned the voung couple had Taj?namely. Austin de Bordeau? several vears an and the king- who ordered the mosque married m tlie nei constructed was the king who ordered *_]_ the Taj?namely. Shah Jehun. As J? ROM the stamp this grand- mogul ordered built the tent medicine mat most splendid pa Luce for the dead when mated that at leas: lie built the Taj at Agra, lie here or- taken by the inhal uored built the most splendid palace of Kingdom e-very w worship for the living at Delhi. See quantity is, about here what sculpture and architecture 1,000,000 pills are 1 can accomplish. They link together people of Russia the centuries. They .-clean and Shah Je- j fUI {in\ 1/}< j\ but theirwork lives I V'11 L u"xi {t v/ ' jjlU and until the eonti-' and the hemispheres ; DR. STOKES GiVlES HIS VIE planet showers oth-j SUBJECT, as ties. , these big buildings, i d to Mohammed 0r iIIe Thj'nk5 tl,e Frcachers Hi ha 01* Confucius or J Power in the Methodist Ch ;e, as St. Sophia at j as a Christian church j La-vmen to? Lit,u'' nosciue and aviIj vet 1 Hp a s* ~\ igain. so all the mos- i To the Editor: Kin of superstitution and. j tlic inclosed article which mod into churches. | hy the Editor of the Soul I Ceylon and China i tfan Advocate, though i usomed. as we all be-1 ^natters involving1 the tru' their religious struc- j Qf the church, which mat converted into Chris- j presented in a misleading d Christian schools j a(ijs another instance t< varies and Christian j -where the organ of the ch at tiie expense of; R;e(\ to the membership sin, they will yet be j it the most ordinary fain jord Almighty. i tice. Very trul :t is that a ruler aban-; J. W: at Amber and moved j Here is the article to \ !1 the inhabitants of ! r.nr-i> is made mid which ex Except here and 1 '-preachers and la \mber occupied by a | Under this caption tlie < 3 silent a population j Southern Christian Adv< Herculaneum. But j jssue of July 10, attacks emptied by volcanic j which, he says, "recently is city of Amber was ; one of our county excha 5rince Joy Singh was | am the author of the state: > priest, that uo city i the statement was made a ited more than 1,000 j take it. I will be permitted ruler. 170 years ago, | reasons which justify the If. and all his people i Since accuracy of state i gage of discussion laid d er, on the back of an i editor, it may as well be ission obtained for ! <inr? cfninmroit. wliiMi lift s:i ; before a Jaipur, an i appeared." appeared in iiting 101* you about i county exchanges sometl: ike you up the steps j months ago. Why the i pass through the cliureii organ, who is usu; eets. all the feet that rCsent anything that can 1 days of their activity jnto an attack on the Chile long journey, and }iave allowed so gave a n ness and gayety that as ]ie evidently thinks t hese abodes having unchallenged so long: an their last syllable. jno- taken up the cudgels s ce covering ;"00 acres .should have wrested this 01 ; used to sail 111 their from its context in the bo italligatorsnow have wbmb bp. bad arb ind you come to the out of thejAdvocate, are qi e. which is an en- will arise in every though more picturesque Here is the fullparagrai osen for the residence editor garbled and then ex The fortress above - 'Finally, he insinuates' this palace, and the raying the laymen agaiusl 11 upon a lake. This j On the contrary I am s ie may have had at- truth and the right of la\ was the home of roy- church. Sixty-nine tliousa 5 vanished, but anti- odistsin South Carolina pc ience of many years 5(5 to ihe support of Ihe i to tread where once ti-.? nP the e lave been permitted I t^Vev are 'ailo\ved only n addition quite equal j ^ates> 011 the floor of tuo mot hear their voices anc[ abuse laymen, and the seethe flutter of their right to defend themselve 5 passing: stoneware membership had had repr< > pictured with hunt- Conference proportionate t mphal procession and kers and their donations T >oms that were called .The issues raised by tt and "court of honor" under two heads?first, th victory. marble, lations of lay represents . like a mixture of church polity; second, th .t: alabaster and iac- p.vnl ition of ls.v represent nother of pearl?all ecclesiastical .system. Thi . an(l sculpture and cover the whole grour iculture can do when vers r renins together was r " 'he flrst ]ace thea_ lo?<?l relation of lay re] absorb and t0 tl e 0ther features of c S ^!?r ,ltSee/' The specific point at issu ^nn?MS fhe editor, is upon mv sate doncd city While -000 lay Methodists in. les 01 earm nave no iinapaid ?177,357.56 to til ids. here is a whole the ministry and the ins ;cted. The sane, of c}lul-di, and yet they a Rcientexcn.se 101 the delegates upon the Heliopolis, and the ^nn{xai Conference whici :diterranean sea for |arg.e surn. while 35' f Tyre, and the lava travel in"- preachers ai e rej is for the obliteration 200 delegates." This pr< but foi the sake of disposes of thusi *4Every 1 )erstitious whim the South Carolina with even < abandoned forever, telli^ence knows that tr lia! The ci ty of Am- paid for the support of oi P +V* /\ T fin i 1 ~ i mc iiian?o ?is estimated oyiaymeu, ;ed hand o:l surprise iavmen, and 'disbursed I u enter Ir.dia until an^ ^at the Annual Con! 3 flora is so flamboy- 110t handle or disburse a si istrous and savage. jt_- jn a rigid. literal ser istive. its idolatry so it would not ce proper to radation so_ sicken- Annual Conference han >rry so brilliant, its ?)uvses anv fund; but will ing, its architecture resort to suc], palpable s< so educational, so fac0 of lhc fac? ^atit . ndmull not jc ful- a?r0nts to attend to these m 1 unbl scxenco lias ^ii;in face of the fact th; 1 *a explora- for superannuated preachi -r, ^ fund, educational fund, an I-r, '"i ra- !i'e ^ ers, are unquestionably d - tu; Christianity t|lC agen^ 0f the Conferer t uv. \ ftnen., and Conference or during > hoe !>.xi . ,, <= . , imo AV.^ - ailtt Ji'v'SUi^ poocu at Conference? To the Annual Conference ?-;ii r-rav.!, _ ])Und!c or disbusre any fun Jaii. 2. AMoinuig forsooth, the funds are li a Blakeh, G-a.. sa\s disbursed by its agents, t "\\ cis the occasion pupyilc pl&vi ng with words nsraiiray at Colquit is just as true of the func which J A. Bush a,Ki .)ajd 0ut for traveling wo or the Kambrell ;ls jt is in the case of suj were the parties en- preachers or bishops or )le grew out of some fund. While the '"amour ics. Bush Champion- t[.p SUpport of our preachei imocratic ticket, and ed ])V laymen." as the editc v Bush knocking ola are ususual 1 y est nnated in "wn after heated al- 0p the preacher and uncle pon Charlie and Bur- appeals, too often regard; w their pistols und 01. drought or _ the pov c 3ush from opposite peopie. "While it is "cone istance of about ten mcn antl disbursed by ia> ,v his revolver and enough, jfc'is estimated, c< shooting at one of disbursed by laymen \vno e and then turning caily the appointees ot tn e at the other, when t]ie* agent of the Conferg out and fired the they are elected by the ot nis revolver, anci -terence: but they can be? ?nc confronting: hhn Up0n nomination by the \ jrelv over the head a body, the majority oi 1 Bush was hit in elected upon the nomine jail passing through pVCaeher in previous year r croing through the |G ];jnder the preacher iro and the third enter- jng only those laymen w icar the heart. His guft him? Is it not reaso ted to prove fatal. t]iat he will nominate su aped with out serious can |)C had lies are broth ers-in- Take a concrete case. Tl: it in local affairs. terlv Conference for the driven charge is in session <1 Together. o . . ,. > - . Jan. 2.? On the j majority or wnom were c st east of this city j nomination of the preac " Clemens, aged 2(1 years. Salaries on the c. >iels, aged 21. were '^een steadily pushed upw near the Independ- l'ie ability of the member: hey skated into an steadily tended downwan e were no witnesses an(* Bro. B. sitting- stewai it several girls who an advance in assessment 1 .r heard a cry and cause of special disaster fro ing to the spot, saw drought and storm?and t the thin coating of nominated for re-election, ed the open space, they are true and faithful, inn and in less than rented the feeling of the n: es of the young peo- They are not nominated by ,m ivow Tiin er?nor that they fail ~t< L been engaged for truly their people, but bi d thev were to be Tiev'"s <*? not sult t5?e ir future. hence they cannot be rc-t I this extent "such, represen duties paid by pa- - given lay members is aim< :ers it has been est:- under control of the prea< t 4,000,COO pills are last analysis." This is the )itants of the United ral construction to be place eek. In France the language, and hence the e ; half. Only about judice lav representatives c :aken weekly by the againstme by construing . The largest pill men^^^eananimpeachm i are the Australi- stronglv ' U|7 VT 2. As to the historical evolution o Jjii J. . ; representation in our ecclesiastica i system. The editor says with grea WS ON THE i emphasis here also that "the veries j tyro in Methodist history also know I that lay representation in our Genera and Annual Conference was grante< ? > c too Much by t}ie General Conference of 1SG6 lurch ana the composed exclusively of preachers. an< by a two thirds vote. It is simply i falsification of history to say that evei 'ov 9 '04. this small representation was grantei dly publish grudgingly only after a stubbon was refused fight. hern Chris- Let us see whether the editor ha t relates to all the historv with him or not. An' tli of history one "who has read in even a cursor; ,ters he had way that old standard of Methodis light. This literature, the Methodist Magazln > the many and the journals of the successiv urcli has de- General Conferences, must recogniz who support! the justice of Dr. Abel Stevens' remar xess and jus- in his history of American Methoc y yours, ism (pa<re 520), when he says this ques ii. Stokes. tion of Lay Representation "has se" vhich refer- dom ceased to agitate more or les ?- t . ? ? ? ~ a .wamiaaw -tv?/^rv-% 4v?z* "five .^UilllS iU5i;ii. AllXCX'lUttll iUCbmjuxaujL num tuv m*. Y3IEN.'' decade of its organization to our day. iditor of The Are these "simply a falsification of his Dcate, in the j tory?*' a statement i To be specific?the Methodist Mage appeared in ; zjne 0f X824 contains (page 574) th nges." As 11 fun report of the committee appointe ment, and as , jn response to nnmerous memorial .dvisedly, ^ I j that had beset this and the precedin I to give the j General Conference, 011 the subject c ; statement. 1 Lay Representation. There is some ment is the j what of asperity in the report denyin .own by the | tjie request. The memorialists mad recalled that repeated efforts, and being: repeated! ys "recently refused, withdrew in 1S30, and, a< one of nis cording to McClintock and Strong an nng. Ji-<e six 0ther Cyclopedias, organized th editor of the Methodist* Protestant Church wit illy qu:e<< to Some 5.000 members, introducing La; be construed < Representation and discarding the oi arch, should ?ce Bish0p. Are these all falsif iisstutement. j ers of history, too? his is. to go The slavery question then absorbei d why, hav- ^he whole attention of the church o tardily, lie resulting a decade or more later in icmrasrraph xTz-wtVin><n and ,i. finutliprn "\fpf.hr>f! 1 sm dy of a dis- Scarcely had this issue been settle itrarily shut ^y separation. when the old questio: aestions that Qf j^y Representation resumed it tful mind. SWar in the General Conference; an< ah winch the the journal of the General Confcrenc iticized: ^ 0f iso4 (page 365) records a resold taat I am ar- ^on on the subject, which, togethe I the clergy, several memorials, were referred tanding for a committee. This committee dis 'men ^he posed of the petitions in quite a sum mary manner?denying the reques dd ?177.35/.- and "characterizing as revolutionar ruaistry and even the attempt to effect such ' aurch, and c}iange. Is this also "simply a falsi I: ~ " cation of history V annual Con- jn the General Conference of 1S5 this Aargc t]ie QUestion was acrain under consid ^ travel:- eration and again the Conference re by <. JO dele- fuse(j to make any change, (See jour presentation na} 155s, page 582). only a"er a Then came the war and devastatio] such repre- and prostration. After this hiatus members is t]ie Qenerai Conference of 1S6G assem i control of ^led. Dr. A. L. P. Green had sen analysis. If out a circular advocating Lay Repre veen preach- sentation. and it was warmlvdiscusse< tnic 1* .1 4 1 f, y wuj m laQ annual v^onierences?piuasm; lergy fought most by very narrow majorities. Dr lembers pro- o.recn championed the resolution oi 11 the coun- the ^oor 0f the'Genreal Conference 'c's any one Special night sessions were set apar t the Advo- for discussion of the subject, and th 1 to outrage discussions were projected far into tk< :y denied the nj orht. I have Ahe assurance of severa s. if the lay ]iving members, jf that General Con jsentation m ference that the .measure, after forfr o their num- yCars 0f agitation and one schism, stil met with strong and able opposition ie editor fall anc[ jn the final passage was opposec ie logical re- by a strong vote of irreconcilables. tion_ in pur j)oes this look like a spontaneou; ie historical concession? In view of these incon ation m our trovertible facts is it not the litera 5se two ton- +/-v cot- +Tio-|- T.otr T?/?nrA?Antatir>T - LiUVU ?AS MJ lq ot contro ^as "granted only after a stubborc fight?" If a fight that extended, a what is the Dr. Abel Stevens says, "from the firs presentation decade of its organization to our day,' >ur system? more thau forty years is not properh e, raised by styled "a stubborn fight," then 1 con stement that f ess I do not understand what languag* South Caro- means. e support of Now just a word as to Bishop Mc titutions of Tyeire s history quoted by the edito] llowed only to sustain his position. I honor anc floor of the even venerate the Bishop's memory h. disburses but that does not relieve me of my re 0 local and sponsibility to seek truth and to foliov irp.sent.ed bv it. when fnimd. It seems to me tha' ^position he the preponderance of testimouy?Gen Methodist in eral Conference journals?is againsi ordinary in- the Bishop on this point, and as ar Le amounts honest man I am compelled to follow ir preachers the testimony. It is not unusual foi collected by people of ' 'ordinary intelligence" to ac >y laymen, cept as gospel truth -whatever thej ference does may find in "the bookbut I musl ngle cent of be permitted to say that it is a little tse, possibly unusual and even surprising for one say that the like the editor of The Advocate, whe riles or ciis- is supposed to Know now nistory L the editor is made, and who has access to the Dphistry, in sources of history, to predicate ? ippoints its dogmatic assertion upon a single quo atters of de- tation from a single author without re at the fund ference to numerous conflicting data, srs, bishops' "Was the editor ignorant of these data, dmanyoth- or did he assume ignorance on the .isbursed by part of his readers? However thir ice either at may be. since the editor prefaced his the year, criticism of my statement with an ex in review pressed purpose to adjare all person hold that ality and motive on the part of the does not "author of this remarkable statement/ .Ui>, Ct'UOV, X OU.jLf jjvyov^ JL Ciiail VV vw%/v% * w andled and declining to notice the epithets, "mear would be and low"' with which he closed his And this editorial. Is collected j. W31. Stokes. X preachers Orangeburg, July 24th. jerannuated Note:?It is worth notice that th< any other editor of the Advocate in his anxiety 14c r*oul fm? l i_ xi J* ~C A A^>-?n i.to jvc*av<. xvi rea.K Lilt; xurce uj tut; ui^iuuii-Lia, *sisestimat- tion against laymen in the matter 0' >r says, they representation on the floor of the An .he presence nual Conference pointed out by me r his urgent hold that the General Conference i: [ess of hood the only law making body; that ih< srty of the Annual Conference was almost entire cted by lay- ]y an executive body, dealing witl men," truly matters of routine?and hence (h< Elected and argued) there was no need, of large: arc practi- ]ay representation. _ In this_also_ h< e preacner, followed Bishop McTyeire. let wher nce- ^,ue' Bro. Herbert made pi'ecisely this ar irteriv Con- <rUment a few weeks ago. in reply t( elected only the editor's crusade against the HoJi ) readier. by ness Association, the editor holds uj ivhoni were hands in holy horror at such heresy ition _of the The merest tyro in Methodist polit\ s. vv hat is knows that in a large number of mac m nominal- ters that intimately concern laymen *ho think to tjic Annual Conference lias absolut< rm 1 _i ' ? ? ^ *4. ^ iiauiv sure i power, me eiecuoix ui euuuis IU1 cn. if they j church papers. apportioning the Bish ops' funds. Conference funds, etc.. arc lc last quar- j all matters that intimately concerr year in a the lay membership who have these . a working funds to pay: and yet 74,000 of them lected upon in this State are allowed only 40 repher iti past resentatives upon the lioor of the barge have Annual Conference, which deals with ard, while these matters. Although salaries ship lias as have been steadily pushed upward, 1 P>va a wbHft the abilitv of the membership \Is. resisted to pay has steadily tended downward* ast year be- expenses of delegates to the Genera] m flood and Conference have in recent years been hey are not levied through the Annual Conferalthough encs upon the membership: and a and repre- host of agents for colleges and other lembership. enterprises have been commissioned the preach- by Annual Conferences to go out over 3 represent the country at large cost to the memscause their bership. Yet these gentlemen tell us v ? -?-i ?1^4- ^c *-?/% r\P lot* aciier? auu uiai iuac 10 iiu utvu v*. ? :lected. To tation in the Annual Conference, tation. as?is Does anyone suppose that these addict entirely tional burdens could hare been laid :hers in she upon an already over-burdened peo5 only natu- pie, if layman had been accorded repd upon my resentation in the_ councils of the ffort to pre- church in propo^^^^^^jmbeM^^ r my*? state- " So far from^BHgSg 'ent r&^ieir being the onl^ffl^fflH H church, '-;*J n^oTl yri&ESs ' I f damental lav.*?the Restrictive P.ales ? 1 the final decision is reached in the Ant nual Conferences, precisely where the t undue clerical preponderance exists? s One cannot read a dozen oases in the 1 Discipline without running against 1 this fact. How then can any one con, tend that the General Conference is I the ouly place where lay representa% tion is necessary, if it be necessary at i all? And if allowable at all. why* i should the clergy be allowed 350 times i as much representation as laymen ? s AN INSURANCEIFIGHT. y "Whether the Lloyds Can Do Busines "Without License in this State. e e Columbia, S. C., Jan. 2.?There e promises to be a sharp fight in this ^ State over the question of whether the Lloyd insurance concerns must pay a [- lieense to do business. The con ten's tion of W. S. Monteith, the general $ manager for South Carolina of the Lloyds, is that they do not have to 3 pay license, as they are individuals. The following correspondence on l~ the subject is self-explanatory: e Columbia. December 31,1S94. d To the Hono-able Comptroller Gen s eral of the State of South Carolina. S Sir: On the part of the underwriters j of the South and North American' Lloyds and the underwriters of the j ? New York and Chicago Lloyds, Whip- j e pie & Co., attorneys, doing husiness j Y at 35 Liberty street, New York City, I j ' A W X AtC LV J.ULV^uil<^ J.J. xo **u>j -*-<-*< ?* , d that you know-of that makes it neces- j e sarv for said underwriters, wishing to ! h do an insurance business in the State : Y of South Carolina, to obtain a license [- from you for such purpose, and. if so, please inform me what are the essentials. d I am ready and willing to comply lj with any law that makes it binding a upon individuals to obtain a license, L- and do not desire to evade any statute & of the State of South Carolina; and 11 will join with you in making it a test s case as to whether the law as it now I d stands relative to insurance compa- j e nies includes underwriters whom I j L* represent. Respectfully, r W S. Mo>teith, I ^ General Manager Southeastern Divis- j ?" ion. L" Mr. Norton sent the following reply ] to Mr. Monteith: F "Replying: to yours of the 31st ula timo I beg to say that being supplied " with a copy of the laws of this btate governing fire insurance, the requireS ments therein for companies, associa'* tions or associations of individuals wishiug to enter South Carolina and do a lawful insurance business is before you and, I must assume, plain. i It will be my pleasure to issue license !? to any company, association, oreanization or association of individuals t wishing to enter the State, whenever such application is properly filed, aci companied with the necessary prelim1 inary papers and fees as required by ' the laws of South of Carolina. None i of the companies or associations re ferred to by you have made any formt al application for license, therefore e none have a license from this departe ment to do business in this State. 1 "It is not the province or duty/Tof | - this office to arrange test cases for the J J courts, but to enforce the laws as we 1 find them under the advice and construction placed upon such laws by 1 the proper legal officers of the State. Whenever the proper papers in due s form are presented they will receive , prompt and careful attention and 1 such action made known to the comi pany or association filing them." i Mr. Monteitn has sent the following 5 card to the Register regarding the art ticle which appeared in yesterday's paper: Columbia, S. C., Janurry 1, 1S95. Please^ say to *he^ fire insurance 2 agents who it is said, nave written Comptroller-G-eneral Norton asking - "if the Lloyds, which have recently r entered this State, are doing business i under the laws of the State, ' that, as , the representative of the Lloyds, J - answer?W e are doing a large business * strictly in conformity with the law* i of the State, and further, please say - that I deny emphatically, and declare - as untrue, the statement, by whomsoi ever made, "that the Lloyds have in 11V VV Cly ^UJLLiyjUL<^U ?? J. VIA IIU? v? * this State, and are doing an illegal business," and here assert that they ' have complied in every way with the t laws of this State, and are doing a i perfectly legitimate business, and i when the Comptroller General sees > proper to attack us, we will domonr strate this.?Register. t Three Burned. Lancalter, ?y.. Jan. 1.?This morn. ingthe Muller Hotel, a three story brick building, and three persons, E. A. Pasco, his mother-in-law, Mrs. j Lester, and his little child, aged about tvpw Vmrnfid Onlv a few 5 other guests were in the builning and . they escaped, being on the first floor. . The fire started about 5 o'clock but i had evidently been smoldering a long ' time, as the ontire building was filled 1 - witlx smoke when It was discovered. i The Pasco family jwere nearly suffo5 cated when arouVS by the noise from the streets. Mr. ' Pasco assisted his wife to a window and she went down a ladder. He returned after his child ^ and mother-in-law. but succumbed to I the smoke and flames and all three' ^ were burned. He was about 25 vears f of age and a restuarant keeper. The loss on the building is about $15,000. A Karrow Escape. 5 NexOMNEE, Mich. Jan. 2.?Martin. 3 Frank and John Woesniak. the three fishermen who were carried out into 1 the lake on a ice floe earlv Monday t i morning, have reached land, but in a ' badly frozen condition. Calls for ' help were herard by a fisherman whop1 lives sixteen miles north of here after^ 10 o'clock Monday night: Himself > and three others went out and fouu/ the men working their way to toward tc * shore through the slush ice by mea; 56 of oars and an old sail. They we & taken in tow and safely landed. J 02 three were badly frozen and Tre; si nearlv prostrated. Martin, who >a [ ej cripple, was unable to move ab(> as *1 much as his two brothers, and is -1 a 3 very bad condition. He is so low'pm exposure that he may die. J Three Killed. 8 i Keexe. N. H.. Jan. 1.?As a'raiu m An tlto Fit^hhnrcr "Railroad wascom- J?f ; ing in tonight a sleigh con^niiig . Chas. Brooks, aged 60. and his&ugh-J8l : ter Ida. aged 25. and Tennr a boyfig about 15, attempted to cross ? tracks! > at Water street crossing ivherthe en? gine struck the sleigh squarelthrowJS . ing it and its occupants ne4y 10TOH . feet, killing all three instant'The Old Story. ||jgj Douglass. Gat., Jan. 2.?ews ha?? reached here that eight ne<?es ^ver^M ; burned to death a day or fo ago jj&B Phillip's mill in the count- Oite aging 1 r i w -a +v^gSSlH tne negroes was an &1UU ers children. They we"e^ag house "which accidental]^! and the inmates were corJB they could escape. jgfal A Vermont Judge hasfl when a girl who has tahH ment ring from a roan^ffl the^|ggj|| ALCOHOLISM A D!$EAs?] Uo-.v It Is Successfully Treated?JE KcSulU. A recent uuaiberof the Preslggj Banner contains the foilowindEB from Ellen M. Watson, Stat?! Intendent of W. C. T. Alliancljj Work in Pennsylvania: Jsi The Keely League andthe i|g Auxiliary Keely League are gal temperance societies. Wej||: Woman's Cliristian TemperjH ance. work in harmony wj|| and assist them in various j|| they are pledged just as muA are to work for the overthrjsl i x... i .T _ i liquor trainc oy mecucai, and Christian methods. ||| We believe the medical <jn disease of alcoholism is the? of better things, for everyJB the sun. I have had the tfl ilege of sending the gladM this marvelous cure into H many a drinking man,butfl| papers I mail are sent to Die, and in this way thjf| reached who are unknj|| Those of us who knew^? know that except in onJH was able to keep'his^totM pledge, bat we also kifl want of the ICeely CureM tured by a drunkard's f|f day of his death. All fl treatment are cured. IjH the diseased thirst for agl away. When a man IgW blames Dr. Keely. trouble was from his or fool hardiness. 1?| I cannot understand but a saloonkeeper e||| blessed cure. We arM any criticism that 9 sound common senseJB it unfair to hunt up afl had any character font dustry, and send hinS stitute, "with the fainM Keeley's Cure will SB of the disease of ir? turn him into a wiJH man of business. to a Keeley Institute raving wild with ?B It is their bodies tlffli alcohol. Their reaH all right as soon as x i.L 1_ "I - - J1 WIMBA i out ox tneir oioou. quires a thirst for .fl somehow to get it JH done then is to great danger, a'' know of that \ r'ifl Keeley Treatm^. Jj man or woman tfl other. ||| The great maj(M are not devoid oJfl though they maJH rantly, innocenfi j i;r? s^aahnbbhbmbdn uruxiJa.ii.Lu. b ioice over tneiJHj keep out of ten jS|n It is time evJffi uplift humani? fully to this, nefl ance cause. TsH coming1 fast, will care for iflj now cares for? ferers. I rejojj Keeley InstjffiB fthnnt tlvWM It is bringii/M and light int.H Mrs. Ida B. CH ing in this ne'iffl tional Sccre*"" ?9 iliary KeeletT | so fortunatentjB that as the irJ|jj| never before lg|| to do evangel :|8 now. Mrs. Cgffl ably known i? she came intofl I LeagneTr^H see her -way cfl her^dag in tlfl I engaged in k/S Icribed. .' fifl I 4c CiO'M I Not onbrtfl furniture a ?Jg [of living-, i fl lpertaining> fl ture. Thi- ffl [nos and c' jra reiLuzt: must be e?.jH o^pavmdV)fl| ana they \fJm Notice t JB Ludden Cgg House, S?dJ| and vfriftjJH Prices. )JH whose y fl they sarefl Luddeira^M and. Jjl they Peterij^fl $600) the sPJBB Som^jgP and0? stic'y |jjjg dat?*10 S^||| fll a> J|| If, a? Vo svH *rM ^sjH